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1005 - Ice Storm (1/26/26)

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4.69.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Will and Felix talk about the horrific killing of Alex Pretti. We talk about the execution, the man Alex was, why the right despises him, the inspiring response of the people of Minnesota, and reasons to hope that we haven’t irreversibly opened the gates of Hell. We also talk about the public responses, ranging from the bizarre justifications from Mike Cernovich and JD Vance to Sohrab Amari’s attempt at aloofness to the [???] from Tom Friedman. Plus: Marie Glusenkamp Perez dealing the shittiest weed in the world. Katherine’s article at The Intercept is out: https://theintercept.com/2026/01/25/tony-dokoupil-cbs-evening-news/  Follow the new Chapo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chapotraphousereal/ And Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/chapotraphousereal.bsky.social

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0:00.0

All the whole Hello, everybody is there a chopin.

0:40.5

Hello, everybody. It's Monday, January 26th, and Felix and I are here for another episode of Chopin.

0:45.7

I can't believe we have to work on a snow day. Can you believe, can you believe we made it into the office today?

0:51.9

Yeah, can you believe that not only we have to work, but they're not closing down schools. You have to produce content all during the release of the Penn Dragon cycle.

0:58.9

You know, I went to my gym and, you know, I go to a certain, you know, it's a national chain now, but it started in New York, pretty famous upskill gym, where everyone who worked for the gym, they were abducted

1:13.0

as children, and they signed lifetime contracts, sort of the C-Ork type thing. And so I, you know, I can

1:19.3

go whenever. I've gone, I've gone to work out on Purim. I've gone to work out on Arbor Day. Like,

1:26.4

it's usually, I can get a lift in if I go early enough.

1:29.7

But today, during the second week of the Penn Dragon cycle, the Daily Wires, I think Game

1:36.1

of Thrones beater, it's safe to say.

1:38.2

No one was there, but I still have to make content.

1:41.8

Businesses all over America are closed right now for the Penn Dragon cycle.

1:45.3

They can't even get employees to come in because they're saying, no, we're watching,

1:48.7

you know, the Jeremy Boring's Arthurian saga on the DailyWyter.com.

1:52.4

And you know this so-called like Megastorm?

1:55.5

Harp actually engineered it so that people wouldn't watch the Pen Dragon cycle.

2:01.4

They thought, oh, they'll be too busy shoveling their sidewalks.

2:05.6

See, I do think, I do believe in the protocols of the elders design.

2:08.5

I do think that a council of rabbis did affect the weather.

2:11.3

But I'm still a supporter of the Daily Wire because of the Penn Dragon cycle.

2:14.3

I'm deeply anti-Semitic, but it's just such a good show that I kind of know

2:18.8

what Hitler felt when he found out about Charlie Chaplin. Look, I mean, like it's such a good program,

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